美文：一生中最好的忠告来自父母、老板和爱人

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[00:02.60]29 The Best Advice I Ever Got	一生中最好的忠告
[00:07.60](By Meg Whitman & From Fortune)	（译 / 璎珞瑾）
[00:10.25]Several pieces of advice I've gotten in my life have really made a difference.	我在生活中获得的一些忠告的确对我产生了十分重大的影响。
[00:18.00]Be nice to people. “友善待人。”
[00:19.01]This sounds like a platitude , but I'll never forget my father telling me that.这话听起来似乎是老生常谈，但我永远都不会忘记父亲给我这则忠告的情景。 
[00:24.60]I was 10, and I had been mean to someone. 当时我十岁，曾对某人刻薄。
[00:28.07]He said, "There is no point in being mean to anyone at any time. 于是父亲教育我：“不论什么时候，你都没必要对任何人刻薄，
[00:33.13]You never know who you're going to meet later in life. 因为你永远都不知道自己在以后的生活中将会遇到谁。
[00:36.06]And by the way, you don't change anything by being mean. 而且，刻薄待人于事无补，
[00:40.60]Usually you don't get anywhere."	通常只会一无所获。”
[00:42.84]Remember that you can do anything you want to do. “记住，你能做到自己想做的任何事情。
[00:47.39]Don't let anyone say, 'You're not smart enough ... 不要让任何人说：‘你不够聪明……
[00:50.45]it's too hard ...it's a dumb idea ... no one has done that before ... girls don't do that.'  这太难了……这是个笨主意……从来没有人做过那样的事…… 女孩子不该那样做。’”
[00:57.34]My mom gave me that advice in 1973.这是母亲在1973年给我的建议。
[01:00.81]And it allowed me to never worry about what others were saying about my career direction.	这条忠告让我从不为别人对我职业方向的看法而烦恼。
[01:07.24]Always do the best job you can do at whatever you're assigned, even if you think it's boring. “不论分配给你的任务是什么，你都必须尽全力做到最好，即使你认为那是个无聊的任务。”
[01:13.67]Jerry Parkinson, an assistant advertising manager and my boss at P&G, told me this in 1979. 在1979年，我在宝洁公司工作时的老板、广告部经理助理杰瑞・帕金森给了我以上这条忠告。
[01:22.29]Here I was fresh out of Harvard Business School (HBS), and I was assigned to determine how big the hole in the Ivory shampoo bottle should be: 3/8 of an inch or 1/8 of an inch.那时我刚从哈佛商学院毕业，公司派给我的任务是研究“象牙”洗发水瓶的瓶口该开多大才最合适：是3/8英寸还是1/8英寸？ 
[01:35.69]I did research, focus groups ... 为此我做了调查，还进行了专题小组讨论……
[01:38.65]and I would come home at night wondering how I had gone from HBS to this. 可是晚上回到家，我就会疑惑：我堂堂一个哈佛商学院的毕业生，怎么在做这样的事情？
[01:44.33]But later I realized that any job you're given is an opportunity to prove yourself.	然而，后来我意识到：你接到的任何一项工作其实都是证明你自己的机会。
[01:50.19]"Don't be a credit hog . “不要追名逐利。
[01:52.77]If you're constantly in the neighborhood of good things, good things will happen to you." 如果你长期与好事为邻，那么好事自然会发生在你身上。”
[01:58.12]Tom Tierney, who was my boss at Bain in 1981 and is now on the eBay board, told me this. 这句话是1981年我在贝恩咨询公司工作时，我的老板汤姆・蒂尔尼对我说的。他现在是易趣的股东。
[02:04.85]It's true - you get ahead by crediting other people.	这话说得很对――通过赞誉他人，你也会取得成功。
[02:09.25]Finally, in 1998, I was in New York watching the ticker as eBay went public . 最后一则忠告出现在1998年，当时我在纽约盯着倒计时牌，等待易趣上市时刻的到来。
[02:16.56]My husband is a neurosurgeon . 我的丈夫是一个神经外科医生，
[02:18.66]I called into his operating room and told him the great news. 当我打电话到他的手术室，告诉他这个好消息时，
[02:22.35]And he said, "That's nice. 他却答道：“这很不错。
[02:24.88]But Meg, remember that it's not brain surgery ."	不过， 梅格，你要切记，它没有脑外科手术那么要紧。”

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美文：一生中最好的忠告 来自父母、老板和爱人

美文：一生中最好的忠告来自父母、老板和爱人